When he was born, we named our oldest son Grant Derby Laws. Grant became the seventh generation of oldest sons in my family with the middle name Derby. The first was William Derby Johnson, son of Ezekiel Johnson of Grafton, Massachusetts. When he was sixteen years old, William’s grandson Carl Spencer Johnson lied about hisContinue reading “Remembering a Cousin Lost at Pearl Harbor”
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Purple Heart Funeral
The man’s youngest son discovered Oversimplify on YouTube on his own around age eight, which made him an unlikely authority on eras of history that most people know little about. Now, he often says things like, “Can you believe people thought Czar Nicholas was so bad? Apparently, they haven’t heard of Leopold II of Belgium!”Continue reading “Purple Heart Funeral”
His Smile Lit Up a Room and Other Things to Say at My Funeral 